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Friction Factor in Micro Channel Flow with Electrochemical Reactions in Fuel Cell (전기화학반응을 수반한 유로채널 형상에 따른 마찰계수에 대한 연구)

  • Cho, Son-Ah;Lee, Pil-Hyong;Han, Sang-Seok;Choi, Seong-Hun;Hwang, Sang-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.245-251
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    • 2007
  • The performance of fuel cell is enhanced with increasing reaction surface. Narrow flow channels in flow plate cause increased pumping power. Therefore it is very important to consider the pressure drops in the flow channel of fuel cell. Previous research for pressure drop for micro channel of fuel cell was focused on effects of various configuration of flow channel without electrochemical reaction. It is very important to know pressure loss of micro flow channel with electrochemical reaction because fluid density in micro channel is changed due to chemical reaction. In this paper, it is investigated that the pressure drops in micro channel of various geometries at anode and cathode with electrochemical reaction and compared them to friction coefficient (fRe), velocity, pressure losses for corresponding non reacting flow channel. The results show that friction factors for cold flow channel could be used for parallel and bended flow channel for flow channel design of fuel cell. In the other hand, pressure drop for serpentine flow channel is the lowest among flow channels due to bypass flow across gas diffusion layer under reacting flow condition although its pressure drop is highest for cold flow condition.

Micro Channel Fabrication Technology Using UV Laser Micromachining (UV 레이저 마이크로머시닝을 이용한 마이크로 채널 제작기술)

  • 양성빈;장원석;김재구;신보성;전병희
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.216-224
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    • 2004
  • In this study, we have developed a new UV$({\lambda}=355nm)$ laser micromachining technology by direct ablation method without masks. This technology allows that 3D micro parts can be fabricated rapidly and efficiently with a low price. And it has a benefit of reducing fabricating process simply. Due to micro parts' fabrication, such technologies need the control of XYZ stages with high precision, the design of optical devices to maintain micron spot sizes of laser beam and the control technology of laser focus. The developed laser manufacturing process for laser micromachining is that, after extracting coordinates of shape data from CAD model data, a beam path considering manufacturing features of laser beam is created by using genetic algorithm. This generated manufacturing process is sent to stage controller. In order to improve the surface quality of micro parts, we have carried out experiments on iteration manufacturing and beam step-over by using a minimum focus size. Moreover, we have fabricated a micro-channel through the developed laser micromachining technology and verified it through the results.

Dual Action of d-Tubocurarine on Large-Conductance $Ca^{2+}-activated$ $K^+$ Channels from Rat Brain Reconstituted into Planar Lipid Bilayer

  • Chung, Sung-Kwon;Shin, Jung-Hoon
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.549-553
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    • 1998
  • Using the planar lipid bilayer method, we investigated the effect of d-tubocurarine (dTC) on the extracellular side of large-conductance $Ca^{2+}-activated\;K^+$ channel from rat brain. When the initial open probability (Po) of the channel was relatively high, dTC decreased channel activity in a concentration dependent manner. In contrast, when the initial Po was lower, sub-micro molar dTC increased channel activity by destabilizing the closed states of the channel. Further addition of dTC up to micro molar range decreased channel activity. This dual effect of dTC implicates that there exist at least two different binding sites for dTC.

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Fault Tolerant Channel Allocation Scheme considering Multimedia Service in IMT-2000 (차세대 이동망에서 멀티미디어 서비스를 고려한 FTC 방식)

  • 박상준;이효준;조인숙;김관중;김병기
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2001
  • In the IMT-2000 networks, the model of micro/pico cell is suggested for transmission of multimedia service. Hence, the efficient method is required for processing of mobile calls in micro/pico cell. In the central urban area, mobile calls may be dynamically increased because of many mobile users. And microcel]/picocell size has small size, handover calls will be more increased. Therefore, many of mobile calls is occurred at a cell in the central urban area, so channel requests for these calls will be increased in the call. In this paper, we propose a scheme, FTC(Fault Tolerant Channel allocation) which is the channel management method for hard handover and new call in a mobile cell of central urban area. When available channels in the cell are consumed, the FTC investigates channel states of neighbor cells in the RNC(Radio Network Controller) or BSC (Base Station Center), and provide available channel for mobile call. The ]no scheme is analyzed and compared with existing channel management method by simulation.

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